yea that's totally true, they ruined comics for quite some time censorship wise.
the thing is is even if a lot of game designers suck, censoring one thing affects everything like it. you remove violence from comics because of a lot of bad ones, well that's good and all but you also just censored violence preventing someone elses idea that might have been PRETTY DAMN AWESOME in done in a good way because WELP VIOLENCE IS BAD.
I mean, I don't like Manhunt either obviously ok, it's a pretty stupid game, but when you say "No, you can't do that. That's too over the top, and if you do this, we're not going to let your game be sold." you're preventing that for every game. Maybe there's this really exceptional game with some kind of awesome deep meaning (ok use all the imagination you can to pretend this exists.) that does use a lot of violence on that level. They are going to get the same response, "No, you can't do that. That's too crazy and if you do this, we're not going to let your game be sold."
That's a terrible thing! Censorship in any way in mediums can be pretty dreadful, whether it's no violence, unable to have homosexual characters (I remember this in comics too!!!!!), no over the top violence, no drugs, or whatever the hell they want to censor. Because you're restricting people's ideas and that is kind of suck, especially if one that comes along with an actual purpose and meaning that would normally stand out from the rest is prevented from selling because apparently for some reason we're unable to sell any type of videogame to strictly adults. I wouldn't buy AO games, I doubt the legitimacy that any game developer could make an AO game that could give me some deep awesome meaning. But it's still the idea that, hey, yeah, you can do that, and not be prevented from selling your game in
every single store in the nation.
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